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Old 10-28-2018, 01:06 PM   #1
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Whew, that's a big move if it turns out.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-maker-red-hat

EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/b...computing.html
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Old 10-28-2018, 01:20 PM   #2
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Apparently done for $34bn, which is about a 65% premium to the close on Friday.
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Old 10-29-2018, 12:02 AM   #4
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Not sure how it'll be, but I think I trust IBM a bit more than I'd have trusted Oracle.

EDIT: Also red + blue = purple?
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I know Linux had a huge craze in the early 2000s as a way to avoid MSFT licensing. Is it still popular? Seems every organization I have worked with went back to MSFT server.
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I know Linux had a huge craze in the early 2000s as a way to avoid MSFT licensing. Is it still popular? Seems every organization I have worked with went back to MSFT server.
Yes insanely popular, Linux and other Unix-like OSs run the world; phones embedded systems, all smartphones, most IoT devices, most (if not all) network devices, cars.

Even in the enterprise environment, I would say my experience with clients I work with that 1/3rd of there servers are Linux. But I only work with clients that have 1000+ servers generally so I can't speak to smaller companies.

Linux and Windows also have a somewhat equal market share.

Hypervisors in virtual environments also tend to be Linux or Unix-like systems.

Mac OS X is also a Unix-like OS.



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Old 10-29-2018, 07:27 AM   #7
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Yeah most of the servers I've ever worked with are Linux.

In fact with Microsoft's .NET Core many Windows server applications are moving over to Linux now too.

In the cases I've seen going the other way it's more to do with getting rid of Oracle.

The majority of major websites are on Linux.
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